People living in the countryside moaning about rural life

[SuePreemly]

I live in a village. New housing estates have gone in recently. Since then we've had complaints on the local FB page about:

Horse poo on roads
Crow scarers in the field being loud
Slurry smells
Dust during combine season

What on earth do people who move into a rural village surrounded by fields expect?

They're always on about having "consideration for others" on their posts, whilst showing none to the place and people whose work involves it 🥴

I live in the countryside and I’m not too bothered about the manure etc. but there are problems, for example:

Neighbours can be too familiar and enthusiastic and expect very long chats if you bump into them. It really does my head in as sometimes you just want a quiet walk.

Zero amenities. No shop, pub, cafe….nothing. I can’t drive and it’s like being shut out from the world.

There’s three buses a day in my village. Not much you can do with that.

That's what I was wondering!!! 😖

I've managed to survive for over 6 decades without coming across this so I presume it's not one of life's necessities? 😂

Dairy farmer friend (organic) says that if slurry smells really bad it hasn't been treated properly or for long enough.

There should be no sound from yacht masts, it's actually the halyards, when it's windy. More so because it causes chafe and wears out the cordage.

(We're rural coastal!)

It's kind of sweet and bitter and sort of pungent.

I've found the one small bottle we bought goes as very very long way, well past it's sell by date.

As for the slurry complaint, isn't it better to recycle and use all that, not to mention it saves buying in expensive artificial fertiliser?

Yes, I think a poster called slurry use "disgusting." Very silly, but mostly just ignorant about farming.

Now feeling rather smug that we can get pomegranate molasses, even in the heart of the Great Devonian F* All. People moving out of cities just need to check their future proximity to a Waitrose. My nearest town has more varieties of sheep dip than sourdough on offer, but (miracle of miracles) we have all sorts of delicious in the supermarket.

@PuttingDownRootsis right that although housing is needed, the related necessary services (new roads, public transport, schools, medical care etc) often aren't even thought about let alone put in place at the same time.

Spot on.

I live in a town of approx 20k people, in a national park. They've (rightly, imo) crammed new housing into the town because it's so hard to get PP to build outside of it.

The increased population means that the secondary school, which can't be enlarged because it's wedged between a railway line and a 70mph bypass, is no longer big enough for the number of kids. The children who live on the outskirts of town now have to go to village secondaries 3 and 5 miles away.

They're now building significant amounts of new housing in those 2 villages, and the children who end up living in them will have priority for school places. No-one seems to have given any thought to where children in town will go to school when they reach 11.

Sainsbury's do pomegranate Molasses too. I have some in my rural cupboard. I bought them for a Georgian recipe with beams and walnuts that was a massive disaster. I think I put in too much fenugreek.

Well, you seemed to be stuck at jumble sales. I was offering suggestions...

And oddly yes, I have always found the time to belong to at least one local group, lend a hand at various events AND pursue other hobbies.

Well, if you're going to cook with 'beams' it's bound to be a bit tough on the teeth...

'Ere, you'm not from these parts!

Someone recently complained about tractors being around during school drop hours. Another post complained about the lights from the tractors at night in the fields . It’s rural ! Tractors are everywhere!!

Don't ever move to East Sussex. Even small villages often have a "bonfire society" that have a large annual display, which other societies from all over the county come and attend by the coachload.

And so many local people have the necessary training to be allowed to put on displays, that fireworks are often a feature of weddings, funerals, parties and other events.

NRFT yet but we have a live one on the village FB today and I quote

" Whoever owns the cockerel near (insert street name), please can they keep it quiet as it has been crowing really early just lately"

We are waiting for the " why are the birds tweeting at 4.30 am....." post due any day now.

@LakieLady Secondary school 3-5 miles away? 5 miles isn't even 10 kilometres. I went to secondary school 10 kilometres away. I took the bus or rode a bike. No matter how I went there it only took max. 30 minutes.

My daughter's secondary was 2 miles away. She walked. It took 20 minutes (well, ok, 30 minutes or more on the way home when the shops and cafes on the high street were open, but the actual walking was 20 minutes).

I live in a large town and we don’t have Uber- it isn’t a rural only problem (or something to moan about).

20 minutes to walk 2 miles? Most people would take 15-20 minutes to walk 1 mile. Even running two miles in 20 minutes is good going.

Some people move here to the Isle of Wight then complain about the ferry services. Ffs you came over by water what did you expect? They then bang on about wanting a connecting bridge or tunnel. Ignoring the amount of infrastructure that would be needed not to mention the cost. The island would become one great big car park.
We love living rural here in the country side.
You don't like it? Just fuck off back to the mainland.

Oh my goodness yes…. I live rurally too and I think there is an imagine of what it is like to live in the countryside and then there is the reality. Sometimes it is lovely, and other times it stinks of sewage that’s just been spread on the fields probably on the hottest sunniest day of the year! You can’t moan about it though it’s part and parcel of living here.

Here's an urban equivalent:
New people moving into a house next to a venue that has hosted live music for over a decade - on the weekend - and complaining about the noise.
Strict planning rules already in place about cessation of music etc but still, the baby can't sleep.
I despair. Would you buy a house there??!!

We had someone come to the door & ask if we can keep the cattle a bit quieter in the morning 👀👀

It was not her hedge, no!

And she didn’t believe the farm owner when he told her it could get him fined / his subsidies reduced.

It looked awful. Really ridiculous. To improve her view 🙄

It’s grown back now after she was emphatically told what’s what.

I know exactly what you mean op. We moved into a new build estate right by a cricket pitch. The pitch has been there for years and years, we all knew it was there when we purchased our house but that hasn’t stopped some people complaining about the noise 😂 it’s actually not that noisy and mostly the the sound is quite gentle and pleasant.

My husband just pointed out that if they drove slower they wouldn’t get cow shit all over their posh Range Rover or whatever.
Where we live now there are - -far too many weekend cottages- - visitors who complain about everything from getting mud on their white shoes to the fact that they’re expected to reverse when they meet a tractor and trailer (but can’t!) and being towed when they park in passing places on single track lanes.
Quite frankly the majority contribute nothing to the local economy yet whinge incessantly about nothing and make ridiculous complaints to the Parish Council.